
Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.
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Languages: English, French, Japanese, Spanish - Latin America, German, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
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I have never left a description on steam but this game is fire. I dont even like reading but I actually enjoyed the ending.
oh my god this visual novel is so good im in act 3 in hanako's route for now i just love the game and would recomand it for now its very slice of life and kindhearted i absolutely love it. i do hope it doesnt end in a bad ending and yes i know its stupid to rate a game without having played it fully. it helped me through a ddlc mod i played and got me back on my feets and i just love it (mod i played was fallen angel and i alt+f4 and uninstalled at some point because i was too scared and traumatized) but i love Katawa Shoujo its so nice i recomand it 100%
O que significa ser "diferente"? Katawa Shoujo nos faz essa pergunta de uma maneira delicada e bela. É bela porque nos mostra que mesmo que você não tenha as pernas ou os braços, mesmo que esteja marcado por uma cicatriz eterna que cobre metade do seu corpo, ou mesmo que sequer seja capaz de escutar ou enxergar... talvez não seja isso que faça de você alguém "diferente". Ao menos, não se você não permitir que isso te defina. E Katawa Shoujo, a meu ver, é sobre isso. Por detrás do que aparenta ser, à primeira vista, uma VN genérica e até low-budget, escondem-se personagens maravilhosos, cenas fofas, momentos tensos, temáticas profundas sobre amadurecimento, dependência, independência, passados, traumas e relacionamentos. Tudo através dos olhos de um adolescente perdido e imaturo, como todos nós, um dia, já fomos (ou fingimos não ser mais). Acompanhar o crescimento do protagonista em cada uma das rotas é gratificante, observando diferentes aspectos de sua personalidade serem questionados a partir de acontecimentos que são assustadoramente relacionáveis para qualquer um. Despedidas, reconciliações e conflitos são utilizados de forma envolvente para abordar discussões que sempre são desenvolvidas de forma satisfatória, mesmo que seus desfechos não sejam necessariamente felizes. Mas é assim que a vida é. Cada personagem dessa história, até os que beiram a insignificância, transborda carisma. No fim, esse jogo deixou em mim marcas e aprendizados que eu não vou tentar cobrir com uma franja desproporcionalmente comprida.
just play the greatest game evere (but download it on itch, since on steam there are no 18+ content :( emi is my waifu.
might be one of the first few visual novel games im not sure if i should play or not... sure it was a bit entertaining and it surprised me a bit to see animated background in most scenes and there being many cgs instead of the sprites just being slapped onto a background,i didnt expect a free game to have this quality but the fact that there exists nsfw scenes (sure it requires patch but the fact they still exist) kinda rubs me the wrong way cuz i expected this to be a slice of life with romance a bit not just straight up nsfw scenes,i might enjoy the game due to the base game not having these scenes (unless you download og version) but im gonna have to unfortunatelly drop it due to knowing this might lead to possibly some stuff i would rather not see even if i would be okay with having a partner like that irl
живу ради ханако
surprisingly well writen given its origin. great characters
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